Re: Symptoms & Female Cycle

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In a message dated 6/15/2004 8:29:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, q.t@... writes:

In any case, I have my appt. with the Cleveland Clinic set for next Friday the 25th. So I guess I will find out some answers.Joy

Joy,

Hope all goes well for your appointment at TCC. I go tomorrow for my first ever appt. there, and hope I do come home with some answers and hopefully, some solutions.

Jan in Northern KY

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In a message dated 6/15/2004 9:30:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, twoseknauf@... writes:

--- Good luck Jan! My prayers are with you!Jo

Thanks, Jo!

It's so great to have this kind of support.

My heart is in my throat!

(and so is my dinner!)

(pun intended)

Jan from Northern KY

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In a message dated 6/15/2004 9:33:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, q.t@... writes:

Jan, Wow, I almost forgot you had your appt. coming up so quickly. How long did it take for you to get your first appt? Are they getting all your tests done in one day? They are scheduling all mine on the one day (yeah!). Some people warned me that it might take two so I was prepared for a romantic (haha) overnight with my husband away from the 3 kids....but no. Anyway, hubby is clearing his schedule and my first one is so early and I have nearly a 4 hour drive so we will take a hotel room. Are you getting a hotel room? Any suggestions? Do let us know how all your tests work out. I am getting very anxious just knowing someone who is going. That seems very weird...but it really hits close to home. We are thinking of you.'Joy

Joy,

I made this appointment about a month and a half ago.

I was not warned about having any testing done for this appointment,

but just in case, I did reserve a room at the Cleveland Suites Hotel, supposedly right there on the Cleveland Clinic campus on Euclid Ave.

I am getting anxious, and will let you know how it came out.

I guess I'll just be glad if they dont say it's all in my head.

God Bless,

Jan in Northern KY

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I agree it has somehow linked to a hormonal cycle. I can be in the

middle of a good spell and behaving really good (in terms of what

I've been eating) and around the same time each month everything acts

up worse. It is definitely cyclical. But then maybe it's just A

that's cyclical.

Lisbeth

> Has anyone considered or done studies to see if achalasia symptoms

> might be related to the hormone cycle (women)? I have often

wondered

> because it seems as if I am sometimes going along fine with

> relatively little problems and then...whoomph! lot's of problems,

> pain, smasms, throwing up etc. Almost as if it is cyclical somehow.

> I have good times and bad.

> Or, is that just about the case with everyone? Or do you all

suffer

> all the time daily?

> That is why I feel like I must somehow have something to do with

the

> disease.....because it isn't striking me all the time. So, I am

left

> feeling like I must be partially in control or have something to do

> to initiate it. My Mother used to blame it on my stress and tell

me

> to relax....which of course left me more anxious because as if I

> wanted to be in pain. Then I thought it was because I was thinking

> about it too much ....and it was making my " swallower not work "

> because I was overthinking it. But my most recent thoughts are

that

> the hormone cycle relaxes the muscles and renders them useless.

>

> In any case, I have my appt. with the Cleveland Clinic set for next

> Friday the 25th. So I guess I will find out some answers.

> Joy

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--- Good luck Jan! My prayers are with you!

Jo

In achalasia , JMB000001@a... wrote:

>

> In a message dated 6/15/2004 8:29:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

> q.t@s... writes:

>

> In any case, I have my appt. with the Cleveland Clinic set for

next

> Friday the 25th. So I guess I will find out some answers.

> Joy

>

>

>

> Joy,

> Hope all goes well for your appointment at TCC. I go tomorrow for

my first

> ever appt. there, and hope I do come home with some answers and

hopefully,

> some solutions.

> Jan in Northern KY

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I go tomorrow for my first

> ever appt. there, and hope I do come home with some answers and

hopefully,

> some solutions.

> Jan in Northern KY

Jan,

Wow, I almost forgot you had your appt. coming up so quickly. How

long did it take for you to get your first appt? Are they getting

all your tests done in one day? They are scheduling all mine on the

one day (yeah!). Some people warned me that it might take two so I

was prepared for a romantic (haha) overnight with my husband away

from the 3 kids....but no. Anyway, hubby is clearing his schedule

and my first one is so early and I have nearly a 4 hour drive so we

will take a hotel room. Are you getting a hotel room? Any

suggestions? Do let us know how all your tests work out. I am

getting very anxious just knowing someone who is going. That seems

very weird...but it really hits close to home. We are thinking of

you.'

Joy

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So, at least I am not the only one that experiences a variance in my

symptoms. They are not bad all the time. I thought I was going

crazy in that sometimes I seemed fine and then out of the blue I was

this other person with this monstrous problem. I was just trying to

link it to something and it did seem to run in some sort of cycle.

Glad to hear someone else is cyclical.

Joy

> I agree it has somehow linked to a hormonal cycle. I can be in the

> middle of a good spell and behaving really good (in terms of what

> I've been eating) and around the same time each month everything

acts

> up worse. It is definitely cyclical. But then maybe it's just A

> that's cyclical.

>

> Lisbeth

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Jan, you are not the only one who falls apart at the seams at going to this sort of situation. I am normally quite a cheeky perky old lady but when I go for tests they look at me and say "poor dear" because I just fold into myself and look the part !! If I have to go anywhere out of the ordinary these days I get quite panic stricken - so hang in there girl - It will be OK!

Joan

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Re: Re: Symptoms & Female Cycle

In a message dated 6/15/2004 9:33:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, q.t@... writes:

Jan, Wow, I almost forgot you had your appt. coming up so quickly. How long did it take for you to get your first appt? Are they getting all your tests done in one day? They are scheduling all mine on the one day (yeah!). Some people warned me that it might take two so I was prepared for a romantic (haha) overnight with my husband away from the 3 kids....but no. Anyway, hubby is clearing his schedule and my first one is so early and I have nearly a 4 hour drive so we will take a hotel room. Are you getting a hotel room? Any suggestions? Do let us know how all your tests work out. I am getting very anxious just knowing someone who is going. That seems very weird...but it really hits close to home. We are thinking of you.'Joy

Joy,

I made this appointment about a month and a half ago.

I was not warned about having any testing done for this appointment,

but just in case, I did reserve a room at the Cleveland Suites Hotel, supposedly right there on the Cleveland Clinic campus on Euclid Ave.

I am getting anxious, and will let you know how it came out.

I guess I'll just be glad if they dont say it's all in my head.

God Bless,

Jan in Northern KY